
Mondo.NYC Speaker


Joe Puthenveetil
Partner, The Raine Group
Joe is a Partner and member of the founding team at Raine. Joe joined the firm in 2010 and has worked on principal and advisory transactions across the media, entertainment and technology sectors, helping lead Raine’s global music and live entertainment efforts and broader EMEA strategy. While at Raine, Joe has worked on a variety of transactions across music including the sale of Chord Music Partners to Dundee Partners and UMG, raising capital for Create Music Group, the sale of Quality Control to HYBE, raising capital for music company gamma, the sale of the Downtown Music’s publishing catalogue to Concord, the sale of Alamo Records to Sony, and the sale of vertical SaaS company FUGA to Downtown Music. Other transactions across TMT have included the sale of Tonic Games to Epic, the equity capital raise for children’s entertainment company Moonbug, and various SoftBank transactions (including the acquisition of Sprint and Clearwire, investment in Ola, and sale of Drama Fever).
Joe has also helped lead a number of Raine’s investments, including Firebird Music, Soundcloud, and C3 Presents (sold to Live Nation). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Firebird and Soundcloud.
Joe has a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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